Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [num] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 2 | Then Isabel read them one by one . |
| 3 | well you got them four for ninety nine and you enjoyed them did n't you ? |
| 4 | Great Britain went 2–1 up in the four-match Test series against the United States when they defeated them 8–3 at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Saturday . |
| 5 | So I drew them one by one — — Skippetty Rabbit , his wife Gillian , Brownie the Bear , Prowler the Wolf , Fido the Pup , Sly Fox , Piney Cone the Pine Marten , Longtail and Short Tail the Mice , and Bill Mouse with his wife Sue . |
| 6 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 7 | The newcomer , moreover , does not enter the village as a lone individual who has to win social recognition among the locals in order to make life tolerable-Instead , particularly during the 1950s and 1960s , the newcomers arrived in such large numbers — perhaps due to the building of a new housing estate by a local speculative builder — that the individual ‘ immigrant ’ found himself one of many others whose values , behaviour and life-styles were similarly based upon urban , middle-class patterns of sociability . |
| 8 | I had four attacks altogether , the most recent only a few weeks ago after I had watched Everton beat us 3-0 at Old Trafford . |
| 9 | Oh I du n no you 'll have to talk to Ian , she said I 've been working Les done , er Les , Les told me eleven till three , it was half past eleven till three and er , so Bev was alright |
| 10 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |
| 11 | She took out little leather boxes and opened them one by one . |
| 12 | The cantor , the rabbi , the chosen laymen stood before the open Ark , cradling the Torah scrolls , which looked like stiff-necked royal children , and returned them one by one to their golden stall . |
| 13 | I examined them one by one — drinks , thermometer , stethoscope , blood-pressure machine , plaster cut-down setting , emergency transfusion setting in a sealed tin , emergency tracheotomy setting in another , emergency hypodermic setting on the final sterile-towel-covered tray . |
| 14 | THREE CHEERS for quarter-finalists The Collins Family from Northampton , whose wayward eldest son lost them millions of cred points by sporting a black NME T-shirt , thus causing Noel to be biased against them . |
| 15 | There was a whole platoon of black-and-whites on our tail at the outset , but we lost them one by one . |
| 16 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 17 | It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant . |
| 18 | She had heard rhyming slang , she knew what four by twos meant , and she 'd once been asked if she could speak with a Jewish accent . |
| 19 | John McGinley made it 3-1 after 52 minutes and Swindon were under a fair bit of pressure . |
| 20 | Sheron made it 2–0 after 37 minutes . |
| 21 | Rovers were bubbling and they made it two on 15 minutes . |
| 22 | Hirst 's combination with Mark Bright is developing and the former Crystal Palace striker 's goal made it eight in 14 games for Wednesday . |
| 23 | City went ahead with a Paul McGoay try , converted by Steve Kirkup , before Mike Robson 's penalty made it 6–3 at half time . |
| 24 | City went ahead with a Paul McGoay try , converted by Steve Kirkup , before Mike Robson 's penalty made it 6–3 at half time . |
| 25 | Sheffield Wednesday 's chief goalscorer made it nine from 13 games in the defeat of QPR but later revealed he is happy for the first time this season . |
| 26 | Henderson almost made it four in four as Guy Whittal failed by a whisker to get an edge to the next delivery . |
| 27 | That made it 68 for 4 as the rain returned and 14 minutes nett went missing around the tea interval . |
| 28 | That made it 38 for 3 . |
| 29 | Kuhl made it 3-0 after 57 minutes , lashing home from 25 yards but then came the exciting climax , during which Swindon scored twice . |
| 30 | However , John de Wolf made it 3-0 after 52 minutes and from then San Marino were in total disarray . |